Atiku Abubakar Vice-President and Obasanjo's key man on the northern front has attracted an impressive list of enemies there with Babangida near the top...
Vice-President Atiku Abubakar a Muslim has tried to get state governors to do so and failed...
Borno and Yobe are almost entirely Muslim but Governors Mala Kachalla (Borno) and Bukar Ibrahim (Yobe) - supporters of Vice-President Atiku Abubakar - were not keen to extend Sharia...
The most obvious alternative to Obasanjo would be the Vice-President Atiku Abubakar...
He answers to the National Council on Privatisation headed by Vice-President Atiku Abubakar...
He and Vice-President Atiku Abubakar have spelled out the new doctrine to graduating officers at the National War College: supremacy of elected officials of state over appointed officers at all levels; acceptance of civilian leadership of the Defence Ministry and other strategic institutions; goals and conduct of military operations subject to civilian oversight; the right of the (civil) Supreme Court to review any decision taken by military judicial officers...
Economic policy is steered by on one hand Chief Philip Asiodu former Petroleum Minister and now Chief Economics Advisor to the President and by Vice-President Atiku Abubakar on the other...
Vol 41 No 10 |
- UNITED STATES
Contract terms: to arrange meetings for Vice-President Atiku Abubakar during his visit to IMF and World Bank...
Now the National Assembly can assert itself: it has already cried foul about the proposed sale of the state equity in the African Petroleum distribution company to Chief Okocha's Sadiq Petroleum: the government rejected Okocha's bid because it was too low but Assembly members didn't like it because of his purported friendship with Vice-President Atiku Abubakar...
Vice-President Atiku Abubakar led negotiations with the governors and persuaded them to back down - at least for now...
